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Israel defended on Wednesday its decision to build hundreds of new Jewish homes in occupied Arab East Jerusalem as US President Barack Obama warned the "dangerous" move pushed peace further away. New settlement construction "embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous," Obama said in an interview with Fox News.

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